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Show NOTED FIICE CJSE PIM TRIED Defendant Is Accused of Promoting; Pro-moting; Perpetual Motion Banking Scheme. Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS, April 14. Tho famous Roch-ette Roch-ette case, which four years ago created such excitement in financial, judicial and parliamentary circle's, and which tho general public had almost forgotten, forgot-ten, is about to be revived. For something some-thing like four years a commission has been inquiring into it, and now tho court of cassation, the supremo court of appeal in France, has decided that tho whole cafo is to bo triod over again. Rochotto, an exceedingly intelligent young man, had been for some time cafo waiter at Molun, and then clerk in a small banker's office. Tho bunker's business came to an end, and Rochotte bought pp whatever interests there wero for a fow francs. Ifc was clever, and stajtcd to work tho bank in his own way. Ile soon found capitalists in Paris who induced certain custom-ors custom-ors to subscribe a few thousand dollars to one. of Rochotte 's ventures. Ho handled the money well, and in the spaco of four years founded a mining bank which at once lloated thu coal mines at Laviana, Liat, Carbayn and Vnl d'Aran, What was the value of these mines tho courts will finally decide. de-cide. Rochette's most ambitious schemo was to lound thc Spanish bank with a capital of 20,000,000 francs. Ho was thus at the head of financial concerns in 100S amounting in nominal or real capital to more than JOO.000,000 francs and the legal counsel for his companies was a well known deputy. M. Rabicr. Sudden I v Rochotte was arrested, lie was accused of having Hunted one company com-pany onlv to pay up the capital of another, an-other, and to have started a sort of peroetual-motion linanco scheme. The police had received numerous communications, communi-cations, and it. was by the express order or-der of M. Lepine thnt the case was investigated in-vestigated by detectives. Tho police, convinced that there wns something wronc. were accused of having brought forward n fictitious plaintiff in order to have Rochette arrested. Tlis companies compan-ies were do oplcio declared in liquidation, liquida-tion, and official receivers were np-poinlod. Tho case came beforo parliament. M. Lepine was accused .of having acted preeopitatcly. Rochette. after a year was sentenced to imprisonment bv the correctional court, and ho annealed. The scntenco was quashed and thon the Dolico prosecutor appealed, with the result re-sult mentioned, nnmolv. that tho whnl case is now to be tried over again by some lower court. At thc snmo lime, political interest in tho case has not wnned, and deputies depu-ties aro using it lo fling strange chargos against each other, with the result thai nobody knows whero the |